carrie karsgaard, phd

What If the Climate Crisis Is Already Built into Academic Life? Across universities worldwide, an expanding constellation of scholars, centers, laboratories, and initiatives is emerging to study planetary crisis, social transformation, and the limits of modern way...

What if academic life is carbon-coded? Mobility. Speed. Output. AI. Prestige. Growth. We question the fossil-fueled assumptions organizing scholarship itself.

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‘Weapons of mass construction’: the US ‘craftivists’ using yarn to fight back against Trump Fiber artists across the US are using their craft to protest against everything from national guard deployments to rollbacks on abortion rights

Excited this piece exists. Honored to be included! @theguardian.com

Want to learn more and get involved? Get a copy of my book Let’s Move the Needle.

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Reading the Earth: Why Climate Literacy Belongs Beside Reading and Math If we’re serious about preparing children for the future, education must widen its purpose.

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When Education Is the Problem: Lessons from Youth Climate Activism - NORRAG - In this blogpost, which is part of NORRAG’s blog series “Provocations for education from youth climate activism,” Iveta Silova, Jeremy Rappleye and Hikaru Komatsu argue that the crisis we face is educ...

🔥 Every crisis has its curriculum—and young people are refusing this one. What if the climate crisis is also an education crisis—and the lesson is to unlearn? #EducationFutures #Youth @norrag.bsky.social @arizonastateuni.bsky.social @carkar.bsky.social
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Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

YES! THIS on GenAI!

Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

Research Details Devastating Toll of Colonization on Pacific Northwest Wildlife

When Europeans arrived to the Pacific Northwest, they spread smallpox to the Indigenous people, plundered salmon, hunted down deer, and erected sprawling cities.

New research details the profound impact, in numbers.

“I absolutely disagree with Carney that the economy and market forces need to be used because the economy itself is driving us into the ditch. It’s based on the creed of cancer — steady growth — and you can’t have endless growth in a finite world.”

This rural community fought one of the country’s biggest gas-powered data centers — and won Inside the grassroots opposition that fended off a 2,200-acre data center campus in southern Virginia, and why their struggle isn’t over yet.

This rural community fought one of the country’s biggest gas-powered data centers — and won.

Inside the grassroots opposition that fended off a 2,200-acre data center campus in southern Virginia, and why their struggle isn’t over yet.

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#Climate #Energy #DataCenter #AI

Funding announced for Mi'kmaq climate change initiatives in Cape Breton Mi’kmaw knowledge and tradition will spearhead the development of a climate change action plan over the next two years based on action priorities identified by five Cape Breton First Nation communitie...

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Seems bad because it is bad.

Happening Monday, May 26 - in Edmonton and online: Roundtable on Relational Research Methods in the Face of Climate Crisis. Register:

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Farmers win legal fight to bring climate resources back to federal websites “It feels good to win one, right?”

Victory! After farmers, represented by Earthjustice, filed suit, the USDA agreed to restore climate information to its webpages after the Trump administration took it down. This is a significant win for farmers and other Americans who rely on this scientific data.

New Research Priorities for Research Nova Scotia In keeping with changes to the legislation under which RNS operates, the Minister of Advanced Education has identified new priorities for RNS, effective May 1, 2025. Research supported by RNS must …

We are alarmed by Tim Houston's attempt to control academic research in Nova Scotia. This sets a dangerous precedent, posing a danger to current and future research. Long-term research should not be impacted by partisan issues of the day. researchns.ca/2025/05/01/n...

Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought giving in to government demands would save their independence Before the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their independence until they were instruments of the state.

Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought that complying with authoritarian demands would protect their independence. It didn’t—and history is warning us again.
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#AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #Authoritarianism #DEI #TheConversation

This! I’ve never seen this many people in the streets in this many places in the U.S. in my lifetime. It’s inspiring, dammit.

Over 2000 protest in wake of student detainment - The Tufts Daily Students and local activists gathered on Wednesday evening at Powder House Park to protest the detainment of Tufts graduate student, Rumeysa Ozturk, by federal authorities on Tuesday. The protest...

Over 2000 protest in wake of student detainment at Tuft's www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...

Georgetown Scholar Badar Khan Suri Remains in Immigration Jail After Masked Agents Snatched Him in D.C. Badar Khan Suri is one of the many pro-Palestine scholars being targeted by the Trump administration. Suri, originally from India, is a Georgetown University professor and postdoctoral scholar on reli...

Georgetown Scholar Badar Khan Suri Remains in Immigration Jail After Masked Agents Snatched Him in D.C.

International students are being hunted on their campuses. For raising their voices for justice. This is pure evil.

Protest Painting Calls Out Fossil Fuel Industry’s Role in LA Fires The collaborative artwork made by Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, David Solnit, and dozens of volunteers at a rally this week urges lawmakers to hold oil and gas companies accountable.

Using pigments made from ash and charcoal collected at Altadena burn sites, artists Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, David Solnit, and dozens of volunteers created a painting to hold oil and gas companies accountable.

Front cover of the colouring book featuring a melting earth and the French translation for "What It Takes: an all-ages colouring book"

Front cover of the colouring book featuring a melting earth and the Spanish translation for "What It Takes: an all-ages colouring book"

Front cover of the colouring book featuring a melting earth and the Portuguese translation for "What It Takes: an all-ages colouring book"

NEW! Our all-ages colouring book about extraction is now available in French, Spanish & Portuguese. You can find all versions of 'What It Takes' (with instructions on how to print!) on our website: www.beyondextraction.ca/what-it-takes #DisruptPDAC

Time for NS universities to speak up against this legislation and take a stand with faculty. “CBC News contacted all 10 universities in Nova Scotia requesting an interview, but none put someone forward.”

Nova Scotia has proposed legislation increasing political interference in universities.

Political interference in education isn’t just an American phenomenon. It’s alive and well in Canada too.

Politicians should not dictate the priorities of universities.

Research-as-Solidarity, with Youth Leading the Way Through the lens of youth engaged in the grassroots network Research for the Front Lines (R4FL) in Turtle Island, this essay explores how youth use research as a form of solidarity with marginalized c...

Check out “Research as Solidarity,” where a collective of youth researcher-activists share how research can be a form of solidarity in the face of climate change and systemic inequities. By Research for the Front Lines for the SI of Youth on “Politics of Disruption.”

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The positives and negatives of US annexation Or, how Canada's elites sold out Canada's sovereignty over four decades of neoliberal economic policies.

The Patriotic Divide: while 90% of Canadians may still believe that we're a sovereign country, the elites and their mouthpieces know better. That divide is why the "51st state" discussion is so weird. My latest.

“Dismantling Democracy” is now its own category of ongoing reporting in the Halifax Examiner. @halifaxexaminer.ca

Researchers Join usManifesto for Decarbonizing Scholarship and ResearchWe are scholars committed to decarbonizing academia. We call on colleagues to reduce emissions, realign research priorities, and transform hi...

Manifesto for decarbonizing scholarship - please read, share, sign, and best of all, try some things out. Let’s shift academia towards a different world. #climatesky

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Fossil fuel companies are funding misleading #education in #schools. We must demand that students receive accurate, evidence-based information that is free from industry messaging.
@albertateachers.bsky.social #abed

The “gift” of Indigenous knowledge and critical, ­place-based curriculum development through ethical relationality Formal education in Canada has historically been a tool of cultural assimilation and deep harm. Change in education is needed not only to address historical wrongs and the cultural erasure of Indig...

some critical learnings from curriculum development grounded in Indigenous knowledge - among our team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous folks. Free e-prints:

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